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Cory Booker Joins Senate Commerce Committee

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will sit on the Senate Commerce Committee. Booker, the former mayor of Newark and a rising star in his party, was sworn in Thursday morning by [...]


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Barely a Peep From New FCC Commissioners at Senate Hearing

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The two new Federal Communications Commissioners, Ajit Pai (R) and Jessica Rosenworcel (D) had their coming out party Wednesday in an oversight hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee.

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Hold on FCC Nominees Lifted

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The Federal Communications Commission will soon be at full strength with five commissioners now that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) agreed to lift the hold he put on the two nominees [...]

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Diller Tells Senators to Rewrite Communications Laws

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Today's Senate Commerce hearing on the future of online video should have been called The Barry Diller Show. The former broadcast exec-turned-Internet mogul dominated the hearing over the future of online [...]

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Barry Diller to Pitch Aereo to Senate Committee

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Broadcast network exec-turned-Internet mogul Barry Diller will take advantage of his appearance before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday to pitch one of his newest investments, Aereo, a pay TV upstart [...]

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Senate Commerce to Tackle Online Video

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Talk about understatement. "Everything about television is changing," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), in announcing the Commerce Committee's hearing next week on "The Emergence of Online Video: Is It the [...]